419ers from space
April 18th, 2004This Register story is wonderful - a Nigerian astronaut is allegedly trapped in orbit around earth, and the scammers asking you for your bank details to help fund his rescue.
Incidentally, I got some 419 spam from my mail form page the other day - which surprised me greatly. I’d have thought that the spammers would be using lists of email addresses and abusing open relays and letting the computer do all the hard work for them, rather than actively seeking out forms like mine and copying-and-pasting it all in…